Regulus Black was raised in an environment in which he was taught that the values of the Death Eaters were good. After seeing how his brother was treated by his choice to betray his parent’s ideals, Regulus just wanted to make his parents happy and decided to be their ideal son. He is a pleaser. He wanted to please his parents and then he wanted to please his Slytherin companions who he was forced to spend time with due to being Sorted into that house, likely by his choice and because he wished to please his parents and not necessarily because the Sorting Hat believed he fit fully into the Slytherin house. Once put into the Slytherin environment where so many were already Death Eaters or Death Eaters in training, Regulus could only join the cause as well. He did, however with age and experience, realize the wrongs of the Death Eaters and in the end chose to betray Lord Voldemort at the cost of his own life.
Re: Regulus Black
Date: 2010-07-27 04:59 pm (UTC)Meghan//Gryffindor